GML Therapy Services
DBT Individual Skills Program
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a powerful, skills-based approach that helps you manage intense emotions, reduce impulsive behaviors, interrupt black and white thinking and create more balance in your life. You don’t have to be in crisis to benefit from DBT. This program is ideal for anyone ready to learn practical therapeutic skills for navigating life more skillfully and with less suffering. While DBT is often offered in group formats, GML Therapy offers a personalized individual DBT skills program, designed to meet your needs in a 1:1 setting so you can learn to regulate emotions, manage stress, and build relationships - at your own pace.
Whether group therapy isn’t the right fit or you’re looking for more focused support, this program gives you all the DBT skills in a format that’s flexible, private, and paced just for you.
Who Is This Program For?
This individual DBT skills program is for adults who:
Experience emotional overwhelm or intense mood swings
Struggle with anxiety, anger, shame, or self-criticism
Feel stuck in reactive patterns like people-pleasing, shutting down, or lashing out
Struggle with impulsive or destructive behaviors such as self-harm, bingeing, or substance use
Have difficulty managing relationships or boundaries
Often feel misunderstood or unable to express themselves clearly
Want to build more self-trust, emotional stability, and coping strategies
You don’t have to be in crisis to benefit from DBT. This program is ideal for anyone ready to learn practical skills for navigating life more skillfully and with less suffering.
What Skills Will You Learn?
Our DBT Individual Skills Program follows the four core DBT modules: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation and Interpersonal Effectiveness. Each skill set is broken down into clear, doable practices that you’ll integrate into your daily life between sessions.
What Makes This Program Unique?
Unlike a DBT group, this 1:1 format offers:
Personalized pacing - spend more time where you need it
Confidential space to explore challenges without group pressure
Ongoing therapy integration, combining skills work with deeper insight and healing
Flexible scheduling that fits your lifestyle
The ability to blend DBT with other modalities like CBT, ACT, or values-based therapy depending on your goals
This program is ideal for clients who want the structure and depth of DBT without the group setting, or who are already in individual therapy and want to layer in DBT skills training with a primary therapist's support.
DBT Individual Program’s Session Structure & Details
Weekly or bi-weekly 50-minute virtual sessions
Typically includes 20 weeks of skills training, covering all 4 modules. This can be customized as clients can pause, repeat, or extend modules based on their needs.
In-person appointments available in Austin, TX and virtual sessions available for all Texas and Massachusetts residents.
Sessions are $175 per session. Sliding scale options available upon request.
In-network with Aetna and we offer support in using your out-of-network benefits for reimbursement by submitting claims on your behalf or providing superbills.
